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If you still pine for 3.5e for something other than the PHB wizard spells like Contact Other Plane, Teleport, Plane Shift, Planar Binding, Magic Jar, Polymorph Any Object, Astral Projection, etc... why? To play Exalted-level fantasy superheroes without actually having to play Exalted. SR doesn't do...

Instead of making mindless creatures and intelligent creatures make bad decisions, just make revivify a 1st level spell with a 1 minute time until use. Then intelligent creatures ignore downed enemies because there is nothing to gain and mindless enemies can savage a corpse while the party finishes...

In lots of games "magic arrow" is worse than "actual arrow." If shooting an arrow of magic costs a scarcer or more important resource than shooting a shaft of wood with a pointy bit at he end, it better do significantly more damage or it's just worse. In most "effects based...

A somewhat unrelated question - am I right in that in SR 3e spirits are way less powerful than in 4e and 5e? They seem to be very hard to actually disrupt/kill (I only skimmed the rules for relevant information, and ITNW seems way harsher on mundanes), but they do much less damage and in general are...

A lot of the game systems from the 70s have shitty magic that isn't worth it. In Tunnels & Trolls, every point of "not strength" you have just makes your character worse. Runequest magic isn't worth using, and by extension Call of Cthulhu magic is worse than not having it. -Username17...

Are there any systems where being a spellcaster/mage/etc. isn't just winning the game by default or if you try even a little bit? D&D has shitty OP magic, Shadowrun has shitty OP magic, WoD has the shittiest most OP magic, etc. I'm aware that most systems that do try to balance mages do it with ...

Well, that Google Doc keeps getting updated...and it's a trashfire. CGL tried to make original mechanics instead of further mutilating 4e, and it shows. So far from what I see, Troll Shaman will be the best archetype to ever exist in 6e, because spirits are nigh-invulnerable to mundanes, especially ...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZPN1-6xfGD9SV6xD85eaJIWoNq0NcsBdE3CQI8s5rJU/edit#heading=h.7de0l2wp9e2m Mechanics that are known so far. Suffice to say, all of this looks like typical CGL, because having to shoot an unarmored civvie with a Heavy Pistol three times or more to kill him is ridiculo...

Dogbert wrote:Is it still class-based?

Not sure what you're talking about, but no mentions of anything class-based so far. Still, I'm pretty sure they won't drop the divide between "you either have magic from the start or you don't get it ever".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtcHfpf5SQU Well, it's here. Here's the short list of what's listed here: No limits No Force - you just decide on parameters (damage, radius, etc.) of your spell before casting it Edge is reset each scene, has new effects, gained by assuming a superior position over o...

If there are "skill levels" for weapon use and yet you also want people to use many weapons effectively, roll as many things as possible into one. I hate to praise White Wolf, but they actually got it right with the Brawl-Firearms/Archery-Melee divide. That's about the right level of granu...

Enhancement bonus treadmills are the problem and never the solution. You may care about a Flaming Broad Sword of Giant Slaying, and you may make a heartbroken decision to pick that up instead of your Keen Battle Axe, which you've been using for 3 levels, but this should never be about the sword bei...

It's difficult to wrap your brain around the Weapons of Legacy, because everything about them is so bad. It's like there was a brainstorming session where everyone contributed various ideas of mechanics that could be used to tweak progressions for scaling magic items, and they decided to include al...

You can't surge your way out of being charmed, dominated or confused (barring the 10% chance of "acting normally" while Confused). It doesn't work against sleeping / dazing / stunning / paralysing / petrifying either. It works against being slowed / entangled / webbed / poisoned / disease...

We can't cover all the bullshit. There's too much. Iron Heart Surge is the Crusader's fuck-you to clever fighters and de-buffers. Nitpick, Warblade not Crusader. Unless the naming sheme is so fucked up, that Iron Heart Surge is not in the Iron Heart discipline/thingy. Thankfully, it is. My personal...

"Has demon blood" is broad enough to include more than one specific look. So some tieflings having goat legs, some having man legs, some having Etna tails is all reasonable. On scaly dudes to play as, I lean more towards "monster" than "six pack furry". Like Warhammer ...

I think you've left out the WoW connection. The Eladrin/Elf divide is very much the Blood/Night elf divide. Tieflings got a very specific morphological makeover to look like Draenei. Even the Dwarves abandoned what traditional aesthetics D&D had established for them in favor of the WoW dwarf lo...

I'm gonna just nip that heroic fantasy statement in the bud there, Igni. No, it doesn't. Thanks to bounded accuracy and the design of the Monster Manual, you basically stay low fantasy heroes forever unless you're a full caster. Unless your concept uses a lot of magic or makes your weapon count as ...

How is that good? So a game from levels 1-4 only includes characters without a concept? Because in 3.5 you could easily have concepts that only work after 10 levels or something. Like that gish example - Duskblade starts working at level 3, and then stops working at level 6, because their "cas...

What 5e does right is the ability to get your concept running at about level 4-5. What 5e does wrong is the amount of concepts supported by the system, because it literally doesn't support 90% of things you would see in 3.5, and the tools the players are given to make their own concept work are woef...

This and the 4E OSSR at the same time? It's like Christmas. Which I guess is seasonally appropriate. Imagine me waking up on my birthday and finding a freshly started OSSR of my favourite 3.5 book here! Yeah, if you just took tier 3 off of JaronK's list, renamed a few things, and filled in the obvi...

Ah yes, the best book of 3.5 which didn't get a thorough enough development. If they didn't just stick "blade magic" on full-BAB chassis and actually bothered with making up new uses for skills, worded some stuff better and ditched the dumb shit about Nine Swords, well, this could've been ...

Advanced Learning (Ex): At 3rd, 6th, 11th, and 16th level, a warmage can add a new spell to his list, representing the result of personal study and experimentation. The spell must be a wizard spell of the evocation school, and of a level no higher than that of the highest-level spell the warmage al...

Yup, I've read that one, had a laugh. Also, White Wolf is dissolved and is now not an actual company anymore. They're a part of Paradox now. https://www.white-wolf.com/newsblog/a-message-from-white-wolf In practical terms, White Wolf will no longer function as a separate entity. The White Wolf team ...

i went to high school in a town of 6000. Wiki says 6,2XX per 2010 census. I had my DND group, plus there was at least 2 other groups I knew about but didn't play with. 100k is top 300 cities in the us. Greenbay has a football team and sits at 108k. Did you add a 0? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...